Looking for opinions for farming Arena.. especially ST Han

I farmed STH to 6* when i first started playing, before i realized he was crap. Now with the update, he's going to help me big time, only a few shards left to max him now. and if you pair him with Boba, Phasma, Lando, and Lum/Sid....bring the AoE rain!

Thanks for the replies.
@Daezl - interesting minority perspective which I appreciate. Especially since you are still using Anakin. Until recently I was running a team like that, just haven't activated Rey yet.

ST Han has been staple in my arena team for over a month. Top 5 everyday. His turn meter manipulation is awesome. Now with way more survivability he is that much better. Going to try him at leader this week.

I've started farming Han with the update. Was getting Savage and most probably will get both. Given a choice, I'll go Han over Savage.

I was just looking into this, Savage and Greedo look interesting to me... though I've never really been a big greedo fan. I play against STH and seem to have less of an issue with him now than I did before the update. HK-47 is too slow for the amount of damage dealt. I'm most of the way to having DS at 7* so I will complete him and then decide. Right now I'm leaning Savage though and will wait to hear opinions on Greedo from those that have him....

Will of course be watchful on STH.... I also won't need to be in any hurry and probably will stockpile some arena tokens for a few days as a wrong move precaution.

"Phipps;303535" wrote:
ST Han has been staple in my arena team for over a month. Top 5 everyday. His turn meter manipulation is awesome. Now with way more survivability he is that much better. Going to try him at leader this week.

What's your setup phipps? Just want to know how many tanks you're running and how it fares.

Anyway prior to the update, I went all-in on Han because I suspected poggle, phasma, han, Rg,dooku and a few others would remain good.Currently farming savage though. I'm not sure how it will work but there really isn't much to farm in arena at the moment.

I'm divided between running phasma or han atm, since phasma is faster and will victory march before han taunts...I see han working better against dooku leads tho... decisions decisions..


btw has anyone tried dooku lead and 4 tanky toons in arena? Just curious to see how long it takes for the opponent to beat that squad...

I've been running a maxed STH in arena for a while now. As long as he lives long enough to taunt (less of an issue, now) and you make sure to immediately focus down anybody who can dispel his taunt (QGJ, Asajj, the occasional Mace), he just plain wins games. The sheer amount of turn meter he generates for your team, if the rest of your team is half-competent, will just overpower any team you face. It used to be that he'd usually die in the process of winning you the game - most of my arena games went like this: 1st round, Han taunts, everyone else focus fires on enemy QGJ and kills him; 2nd round onwards, enemy team attacks STH, all my other guys get to go twice as often as enemy team, by the time Han died, it was my remaining four guys vs. the enemy's two least threatening guys, and squish.

The only issues I tended ran into were: 1.) teams with two dispellers (e.g. QGJ and Mace, or QGJ and Asajj) where my bad options were: wait to pop the taunt until they're both dead (by which point it's probably to late in the battle to matter much) or pop the taunt after only one is dead and *hope* the other one decides not to dispel or has used its dispel already; and 2.) extremely fast burst-damage teams that killed STH before he got to go (if they burst down anyone other than STH pre-taunt, STH's taunt was still generally powerful enough to win me the game with my remaining 3 toons).

Post-update, 2.) isn't really a problem anymore; I suspect 1.) will still be an issue but the meta changes may mean less frequent QGJ. So, basically STH was always awesome but he should be a little more consistent/less subject to bad luck now.

I will note that on Arena defense, he's never been amazing, because smart players can too easily make sure that they dispel his taunt (and it has a long cooldown) after which he's much less scary. I'd swap him out for RG, or use him together with RG, on defense.

One important note about STH: you want his Taunt to last as long as possible. This means, somewhat counter-intuitively, you *don't* want to upgrade his basic attack very much, because his basic attack generates turn meter for him, which causes him to burn through his taunt faster. Leave it at low levels (my STH's basic attack is level 4) and he won't take as many turns - I mean you're not really bringing him for his damage, anyways.

45k arena tokens? LOL damn son. You'll never be able to use all those. Should've just kept farming someone slowly.

I'm gonna farm ST Han, just finished Ackbar and Biggs. Will be getting HRS because he is going to be a beast at 80.

I believe turn meter manipulation is going to be one of the new metas.

Detonators could become a meta too if they ever fix them and give scoundrels some potency. BUT, Ackbar will just dispel them all.

Han is useless. I have him maxed, and he still can't last first round in arena.
I'd suggest option 3 or 4.... Wait for them to realize how bad this change is or find a new game.

"Ki_Adi_Mundi;304204" wrote:
Han is useless. I have him maxed, and he still can't last first round in arena.
I'd suggest option 3 or 4.... Wait for them to realize how bad this change is or find a new game.

I don't have him but I always attack him 1st cos once his taunt goes off, it plays mayhem. I think thats what a tank's supposed to do, draw fire.

What squad did you run him in? I cannot just discount your opinion as your Han is maxed but it's contrary to the popular opinions about him. Please share more details, if you can.